Social Science & Medicine

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2017, volume 182, articles C

“I started working because I was hungry”: The consequences of food insecurity for children's well-being in rural Ethiopia pp. 1-9

Virginia Morrow, Yisak Tafere, Nardos Chuta and Ina Zharkevich

Doctors' experience of coordination across care levels and associated factors. A cross-sectional study in public healthcare networks of six Latin American countries pp. 10-19

María-Luisa Vázquez, Ingrid Vargas, Irene Garcia-Subirats, Jean-Pierre Unger, Pierre De Paepe, Amparo Susana Mogollón-Pérez, Isabella Samico, Pamela Eguiguren, Angelica-Ivonne Cisneros, Adriana Huerta, María-Cecilia Muruaga and Fernando Bertolotto

The network structure of sex partner meeting places reported by HIV-infected MSM: Opportunities for HIV targeted control pp. 20-29

Meredith Brantley, Christina Schumacher, Errol L. Fields, Jamie Perin, Amelia Greiner Safi, Jonathan M. Ellen, Ravikiran Muvva, Patrick Chaulk and Jacky M. Jennings

Health & access to care among working-age lower income adults in the Great Recession: Disparities across race and ethnicity and geospatial factors pp. 30-44

Samuel D. Towne, Janice C. Probst, James W. Hardin, Bethany A. Bell and Saundra Glover

Is a hilly neighborhood environment associated with diabetes mellitus among older people? Results from the JAGES 2010 study pp. 45-51

Takeo Fujiwara, Iseki Takamoto, Airi Amemiya, Masamichi Hanazato, Norimichi Suzuki, Yuiko Nagamine, Yuri Sasaki, Yukako Tani, Aki Yazawa, Yosuke Inoue, Kokoro Shirai, Yugo Shobugawa, Naoki Kondo and Katsunori Kondo

The gap between entitlement and access to healthcare: An analysis of “candidacy” in the help-seeking trajectories of asylum seekers in Montreal pp. 52-59

Liana E. Chase, Janet Cleveland, Jesse Beatson and Cécile Rousseau

Accessibility of tertiary hospitals in Finland: A comparison of administrative and normative catchment areas pp. 60-67

Tiina Huotari, Harri Antikainen, Timo Keistinen and Jarmo Rusanen

I care, even after the first impression: Facial appearance-based evaluations in healthcare context pp. 68-72

Katia Mattarozzi, Valentina Colonnello, Francesco De Gioia and Alexander Todorov

Discredited legacy: Stigma and familial amyloid polyneuropathy in Northwestern Portugal pp. 73-80

Álvaro Mendes, Liliana Sousa, Jorge Sequeiros and Angus Clarke

Performing boundary work: The emergence of a new practice in a hybrid operating room pp. 81-88

Kajsa Lindberg, Lars Walter and Elena Raviola

Child disability and siblings' healthcare expenditures in a context of child fostering pp. 89-96

Arlette Simo Fotso

The benefits of paid maternity leave for mothers' post-partum health and wellbeing: Evidence from an Australian evaluation pp. 97-105

Belinda Hewitt, Lyndall Strazdins and Bill Martin

An assessment of the social cognitive predictors of exclusive breastfeeding behavior using the Health Action Process Approach pp. 106-116

J.L. Martinez-Brockman, F.M. Shebl, N. Harari and R. Pérez-Escamilla

Health policy in the concertación era (1990–2010): Reforms the chilean way pp. 117-126

María Soledad Martinez-Gutierrez and Cristóbal Cuadrado

Political gender inequality and infant mortality in the United States, 1990–2012 pp. 127-135

Patricia Homan

Social identity and support for counteracting tobacco company marketing that targets vulnerable populations pp. 136-141

Sabeeh A. Baig, Jessica K. Pepper, Jennifer C. Morgan and Noel T. Brewer

Ebola-related stigma in Ghana: Individual and community level determinants pp. 142-149

Eric Y. Tenkorang

Problematic social media use and depressive symptoms among U.S. young adults: A nationally-representative study pp. 150-157

Ariel Shensa, César G. Escobar-Viera, Jaime E. Sidani, Nicholas D. Bowman, Michael P. Marshal and Brian A. Primack

2017, volume 181, articles C

Do online reviews diminish physician authority? The case of cosmetic surgery in the U.S pp. 1-8

Alka V. Menon

Physician associates in primary health care in England: A challenge to professional boundaries? pp. 9-16

Vari M. Drennan, Jonathon Gabe, Mary Halter, Simon de Lusignan and Ros Levenson

The role of city income inequality, sex ratio and youth mortality rates in the effect of violent victimization on health-risk behaviors in Brazilian adolescents pp. 17-23

Dandara de Oliveira Ramos, Martin Daly, Maria Lucia Seidl-de-Moura and Paulo Nadanovsky

Hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions across primary care models in Ontario, Canada pp. 24-33

Maude Laberge, Walter P. Wodchis, Jan Barnsley and Audrey Laporte

The problem of choice: From the voluntary way to Affordable Care Act health insurance exchanges pp. 34-42

Jessica Mulligan

Persistence of pandemic influenza on the development of children: Evidence from industrializing Japan pp. 43-53

Kota Ogasawara

Changing health care provider performance through measurement pp. 54-65

Kenneth Leonard and Melkiory C. Masatu

“Even my sister says I'm acting like a crazy to get a check”: Race, gender, and moral boundary-work in women's claims of disabling chronic pain pp. 66-73

Jane Pryma

Is foreign direct investment good for health in low and middle income countries? An instrumental variable approach pp. 74-82

Darren K. Burns, Andrew P. Jones, Yevgeniy Goryakin and Marc Suhrcke

Extending health insurance to the poor in India: An impact evaluation of Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana on out of pocket spending for healthcare pp. 83-92

Anup Karan, Winnie Yip and Ajay Mahal

Adult children's education and changes to parents' physical health in Mexico pp. 93-101

Jenjira J. Yahirun, Connor M. Sheehan and Mark D. Hayward

Accomplishing professional jurisdiction in intensive care: An ethnographic study of three units pp. 102-111

Andreas Xyrichis, Karen Lowton and Anne Marie Rafferty

Household social capital and socioeconomic inequalities in child undernutrition in rural India pp. 112-121

William T. Story and Richard M. Carpiano

The effect of employment transitions on physical health among the elderly in South Korea: A longitudinal analysis of the Korean Retirement and Income Study pp. 122-130

Juyeon Lee and Myoung-Hee Kim

Visibility, respectability, and disengagement: The everyday resistance of mothers with disabilities pp. 131-138

Angela Frederick

State political ideology, policies and health behaviors: The case of tobacco pp. 139-147

Ashley M. Fox, Wenhui Feng and Rakesh Yumkham

Female sex workers use power over their day-to-day lives to meet the condition of a conditional cash transfer intervention to incentivize safe sex pp. 148-157

Jan E. Cooper, William Dow, Damien de Walque, Ann C. Keller, Sandra I. McCoy, Lia C.H. Fernald, Marianna P. Balampama, Admirabilis Kalolella, Laura J. Packel, Wendee M. Wechsberg and Emily J. Ozer

Acceptable health and priority weighting: Discussing a reference-level approach using sufficientarian reasoning pp. 158-167

S. Wouters, Job van Exel, K.I.M. Rohde, J.J. Vromen and Werner Brouwer

Changes in household food insecurity are related to changes in BMI and diet quality among Michigan Head Start preschoolers in a sex-specific manner pp. 168-176

Erica C. Jansen, Nicole Kasper, Julie C. Lumeng, Holly E. Brophy Herb, Mildred A. Horodynski, Alison L. Miller, Dawn Contreras and Karen E. Peterson

Socio-psychological mediators of the relationship between behavioral health stigma and psychiatric symptoms pp. 177-183

Bronwyn A. Hunter, Nathaniel Vincent Mohatt, Dana M. Prince, Azure B. Thompson, Samantha L. Matlin and Jacob Kraemer Tebes

Stability of coping and the role of self-efficacy in the first year following mild traumatic brain injury pp. 184-190

Myrthe E. Scheenen, Harm J. van der Horn, Myrthe E. de Koning, Joukje van der Naalt and Jacoba M. Spikman

County-level racial prejudice and the black-white gap in infant health outcomes pp. 191-198

Jacob Orchard and Joseph Price

2017, volume 180, articles C

The effects of women's education on maternal health: Evidence from Peru pp. 1-9

Abigail Weitzman

How did the Good School Toolkit reduce the risk of past week physical violence from teachers to students? Qualitative findings on pathways of change in schools in Luwero, Uganda pp. 10-19

N. Kyegombe, S. Namakula, J. Mulindwa, J. Lwanyaaga, D. Naker, S. Namy, J. Nakuti, J. Parkes, Lord Marmon Knight, E. Walakira and K.M. Devries

The social logic of naloxone: Peer administration, harm reduction, and the transformation of social policy pp. 20-27

Rachel Faulkner-Gurstein

The impact of welfare reform on the health insurance coverage, utilization and health of low education single mothers pp. 28-35

Kimberly Narain, Marianne Bitler, Ninez Ponce, Gerald Kominski and Susan Ettner

The sociology of space as a catalyst for innovation in the health sector pp. 36-44

Trust Saidi, Katusha de Villiers and Tania S. Douglas

Stability and change in disease prestige: A comparative analysis of three surveys spanning a quarter of a century pp. 45-51

Dag Album, Lars E.F. Johannessen and Erik B. Rasmussen

Spatio-temporal neighborhood impacts on internalizing and externalizing behaviors in U.S. elementary school children: Effect modification by child and family socio-demographics pp. 52-61

Jamie L. Humphrey and Elisabeth D. Root

Tolerance of uncertainty: Conceptual analysis, integrative model, and implications for healthcare pp. 62-75

Marij A. Hillen, Caitlin M. Gutheil, Tania D. Strout, Ellen M.A. Smets and Paul K.J. Han

Bureaucratization and medical professionals’ values: A cross-national analysis pp. 76-84

Girts Racko

The socio-political context of migration and reproductive health disparities: The case of early sexual initiation among Mexican-origin immigrant young women pp. 85-93

Kate Coleman-Minahan

The impact of transitions in insurance coverage on GP visiting among children in Ireland pp. 94-100

Anne Nolan and Richard Layte

Does educational attainment shape reactions to genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease? Results from a national survey experiment pp. 101-105

Matthew A. Andersson, Shana Kushner Gadarian and Rene Almeling

A visual analysis of gender bias in contemporary anatomy textbooks pp. 106-113

Rhiannon Parker, Theresa Larkin and Jon Cockburn

The harder they fall? Sex and race/ethnic specific suicide rates in the U.S. foreclosure crisis pp. 114-124

Jason N. Houle and Michael T. Light

The intimate relationship as a site of social protection: Partnerships between people who inject drugs pp. 125-134

Tim Rhodes, Jake Rance, Suzanne Fraser and Carla Treloar

Varying cognitive targets and response rates to enhance the question-behaviour effect: An 8-arm Randomized Controlled Trial on influenza vaccination uptake pp. 135-142

Mark Conner, Tracy Sandberg, Chandani Nekitsing, Russell Hutter, Chantelle Wood, Cath Jackson, Gaston Godin and Paschal Sheeran

The more the heavier? Family size and childhood obesity in the U.S pp. 143-151

Ashlesha Datar

Does the media matter to suicide?: Examining the social dynamics surrounding media reporting on suicide in a suicide-prone community pp. 152-159

Anna S. Mueller

Variola minor in coalfield areas of England and Wales, 1921–34: Geographical determinants of a national smallpox epidemic that spread out of effective control pp. 160-169

Matthew R. Smallman-Raynor, Sarah Rafferty and Andrew D. Cliff

Food as a social determinant of mental health among household heads in the Upper West Region of Ghana pp. 170-180

Kilian Nasung Atuoye and Isaac Luginaah

Reduced burden of childhood diarrheal diseases through increased access to water and sanitation in India: A modeling analysis pp. 181-192

Arindam Nandi, Itamar Megiddo, Ashvin Ashok, Amit Verma and Ramanan Laxminarayan